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I am needing to upgrade from Win95 to Win2K. Is this possiable? If so, what is it that I will need other than the boot disk?

Internet Explorer 6.0, SP1. Windows 2000 Pro Missing "advanced" tab in tools - options Did a rollback and then re-upgraded to 6.0 from Microsoft site. Still not resolved. Any ideas? Virus? Any solutions? Thank you

My daughter is running xp home on a Dell laptop. All her programs seem to be associated with windows media player and of course it gives the error that it can't play them. I have tried restore to a earlier date. Tried creating new shortcuts and icons. checked the registry …

OS is Windows 2000 The problem is that my IE has been very slow and even crashing the comp I've been using SpyBot for a while, but it can't delete some stuff in a file called CommonNames. I know nothing about the file, but I'm guessing it's the source of …

I just installed a fresh installation of XP , ive installed XP before but never had this problem . Every time I try to register XP it comes up with a blank page , How the hell am I supposed to register XP with just a white screen, now i …

I am having a problem shutting down my computer. Whether I click on the Shutdown icon or the Restart icon, my computer restarts. My OS is Windows XP Professional. This problem started yesterday.

Is there any way to turn the powersaver off completely? I have animated screensavers that I cannot use because after 30 minutes the powersaver turns the screen black and I can hear the screensaver but not see it. In addition, the powersaver has a 60 minute option which I cannot …

I have the error "gstartup.ink" come up when windows loads. I searched for the error on google and this website came up. via another thread's advice, I ran the program HiJackThis which searched my browser for some spyware. I don't know if it found anything that isn't suppose to be …

I am currently using Win XP Pro and my computer locks up after logging on to the Internet, Why?

Hi there, I am going to help a friend soon upgrading their system to win2000 - and it currently has win98 on it. It probably has 1 hard drive, and they can't fdisk using tools like partition magic (the time period to purchase/get the software is too small). Anyway. My …

In Internet Explorer, A friend of mine has accidentally clicked on the "do not ask me again for this type of file" check box in the window that says "save", "cancel" and "open" which first open when you click on a download, so now the window doesn't appear. Is there …

[font=Century Gothic]Okay this is the problem I have been having:[/font] [font=Century Gothic]I recently had WindowsXP (service pack 1) installed on my computer[/font] [font=Century Gothic]I tried to then play a game on Pogo, told me, I needed to DL the JAVA, so went there, did the DL successfully, went back to …

Okay, simply put, I have no idea what I am doing here, and probably less business being here on this site. But, this is my issue: I am trying to update a free photo gallery page for my son and the damn thing keeps saying "this program has performed an …

[b]Whenever I attempt to forward a message in my Yahoo email using Internet Explorer, the text disappears on the next page. This also happens when I use the 'spell check' option. However, when I use AOL as my browser (which I don't like doing), this does NOT happen. (I had …

There are some websites that I know exist, but when i try to go to them I get a fun little message saying "this document contains no data" Haw du i ficks thiss?

Okay, here is a good one.... I just finished building a custom PC over the weekend. Got all the hardware, BIOS, OS, and applications set up and did the updates. Oddly enough, Sunday Internet Explorer quit accessing the internet, as did Media Player. MSN explorer works fine, as does Mozilla. …

Hey peepz, Im a new guy here and I have a problem... I have a (Packard Bell Club70 PC), its about 5 years old... it had Windows 98SE 63MB SD RAM Intel 82810 Chipset 20Gig HD... ive now upgraded it to Windows XP 256MB SD RAM 20gig + 30 gig …

I'm trying to establish a video link with my son. We're both on ntl world broadband and have XP professional. Using netmeeting I can see him, he can't see me only my flower icon. I can't hear him but he can hear me. Any tips?

i use my d: drive primarily for mp3s. is there a way to group the files on my d: drive by artist? The closest i have come is by grouping them by their first letter. My d: drive is all mp3's no folders nor do i want folders? is this …

Hi, first time here, great site, hopefully you can help me with my problem and in the future I may be able to help as well..... I have Windows 98, for some reason I cant explain all of a sudden the setting in the Settings/Display box went to 640 x …

Aargh - I just spent ages typing in a long and detailed description. And then I was told that I would have to log in, even though I was sure I was already logged in. Anyway. When installing Win2k Professional with Multi-Language and including Service Pack 2 from bootable CD-ROM …

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I've got a network of three pcs running, two pcs run just fine, internet and browsers. They are running on verizon dsl. The main pc had a bunch of spyware which I removed via spybot. I did this because I could get the main pc to connect to the net …

I have a fairly new laptop (1 month old) HP Pavillion ZD7000-P4-3.06 w/Hyper-Threading. 768 MB PC2700-128 Nvidia GForce 5600go graphics card. Up until about a week ago when starting my computer it was fairly quick. Now all of a sudden it takes 2min.30sec.-2min.45 sec. to completely bootup. I don't even …

I recently installed a new Asus P4T motherboard and pentium 2.66 ghz processor. Now, when I go to shut down my computer through windows xp, the computer shuts down, the monitor stops detecting a signal, but the fans on the motherboard do not power off and i can't be sure, …

Please help me. I'm stuck. Any help will be appreciated. When I go to a web page, it partly loads and stops. When I click anywhere on the page, the hourglass comes up. It goes away when I put the cursor over the title bar and the only thing I …

I'm looking for a way to use a remote administration program (dameware maybe) that will be able to ack like the windows help in XP (meaning it can penitrate though a firewall). Does anyone know of any solution to this?

I'm running XP w/Internet Explorer version 6.0. When I try to open my Outlook Express, I get the following message," Faulting application msimn.exe, version 6.0.2600.0, faulting module directdb.dll, version6.0.2600.0, fault address 0x0000af52 " Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[size=4][color=red]Hi All,[/color][/size] [size=4][color=red]I want to diagnose a windows 2000 debug file. i am copying the same over here. Can anyone let me know the reason why this make a server to restart and wht is the cause.[/color][/size] ---------------------------------------------------------------- [color=blue]Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:33:59 PM scottec Loading Dump File [E:\Memory.dmp] Kernel …

I have been having this problem recently with my internet explorer 6.0. I have no problems with viewing but whenever I go into an online forum , the messages mostly appear as so small that they are not readable. go to this site and look at the postings at the …

Well here i go again I'm sorry about posting this in the other places. Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 9:31:43 PM, on 1/12/2004 Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINNT\System32\smss.exe C:\WINNT\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINNT\system32\services.exe C:\WINNT\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINNT\system32\LEXBCES.EXE C:\WINNT\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINNT\system32\LEXPPS.EXE C:\WINNT\System32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\Program Files\Symantec_Client_Security\Symantec …

Hi Experts, I have applied many hot fixes on my computer (XP). Now, I want to know the date when the fixes has been installed and the last installed hot fix. I know i can see the installed hotfix status under ADD/REMOVE control panel but not able to see the …

It's been a long time since I used Windows 9x systems. Hell I was on WinNT back in those days but I think if your on any of these systems it is time to upgrade big time stop waiting stop getting problems after problems. There really is no different from …

After running IE for 5-10 minutes I click on a link and it does nothing. If I click again it says 'Done' in the info bar (or whatever it's called, just above the Taskbar anyway), even though it isn't. I've scanned the computer for spyware/virii, and it still happens. Can …

Just installed xp home. Every day my pc boots up (when powered off) and goes to login page (this occurs at the same time daily). I have disabled all bios start up features. It appears that its trying to send an at command? this does not happen when i use …

My girlfriends computer will not boot up. Here's what it does: Upon starting the computer it will go to the Network Log In Screen where you input your user name and password and then the screen is just blank w/ only the background, you see the task bar for a …

I was browsing in hopes of trying to fix this problem and happened on this site. I am using Win XP, sorry I don't know what service pack. I have lots of new weird stuff on my computer. I have gathered from my few short minutes on this site that …

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[font=Book Antiqua][size=3]Hello there,[/size][/font] [font=Book Antiqua][size=3] I have a new system that was built for me. The system runs awesome until the computer goes into idle. (normally about 15 minutes on no use it automatically reboots itself. Have tried updating norton. Thought that could be the issue. [/size][/font] [font=Book Antiqua][size=3]Any suggestion.[/size][/font] …

Hi, this is my first post so please bear with me. I am posting this for my Father. He has a Full Version of XP Pro on disc: it can upgrade, or do a full install. He has used used the disc on several of his other computers (going from …

[color=black][font=Arial][size=3]I have had this pc for about 4 months and it has had nothing but problems, and has been back to the shop 4 times. The makers (A&D Computers) just won't help me anymore.[/size][/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial][size=3]When ever I try making a VCD or copying a CD on to the computer or …

Do to some puter problems, I have had my computer hard drive completely redone. Upon reinstalling my windows 98 and then all the updates, I have been confronted with this update for .net framework. Being computer illiterate I have no idea whether or not I need this download and because …

I recently upgraded from Windows ME to XP Pro and during the installation it said that regedit.exe was not copied properly and then it gave me the option of skipping that file which I did. Once install was complete, the computer re-booted and once it gets to the "Windows is …

I'm having problem trying to install win xp. After the format is done it said something about my hard drive is not turn on or connected. I know for sure it's connect but how do I turn it on.. also I'm getting this error DRFAT32.sys: could not find a drive …

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help. I have a Gateway Pentium 4, 1400 mhz, intel with windows me. We started having alot of problems with error messages, so finally as a last resort, we uninstalled windows and reinstalled it. We noticed that alot of the error messages seemed to have …

Ok i need to restore my computer to an earlyier day but when I try to do it , my pc says it couldn't restore to that point. Is there anythign I can do to fix this? I installed 3 games since my last restore point do i need to …

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 2:05:25 PM, on 1/9/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXBCES.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXPPS.EXE C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\cvpnd.exe C:\Program Files\Symantec_Client_Security\Symantec AntiVirus\DefWatch.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7Debug\mdm.exe C:\Program Files\Symantec_Client_Security\Symantec AntiVirus\Rtvscan.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe …

I have a problem with carriage return when typing in text. Every time I hit <enter> the window loses focus instead of the cursor moving to a new line. This is happening as I type in this message, and it is really inconvenient. This is probably caused by a virus …

I have windows xp with to version of messenger, the first one is windows version 4.7 4.7 2009 and the other is msn messenger version 6.1 0207, can you tell me the difference beteen them and how to use them. Thank -you Peter.

My 'Internet Properties' message box has suddenly decided to adopt the data [url="http://acc.count-all.com/-/?%63%78%6c%6f%77"][u][color=#0000ff]http://%61%63%63%2e%63%6f%75%6e%74%2d%61%6c%6c%2e%63%6f%6d/%2d/?%63%78%6c%6f%77[/color][/u][/url] as it's default homepage (it's a search engine site). Despite never visiting this site, and my constant deletion to all it's references in the registry, it still reappears at every start up. Any help as to how …